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28 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Decembkr 22, 1910. 



For New /Year's and the Month of January 



Roses in Quantity and of Unusual Quality 



It will pay you to remember that we are headquarters, and that means that you can 



look to us for quality and good prices. 



Beauties, Killarney, Maryland I Richmond 



are our leaders. The retailers we are supplying have the satisfaction of getting the Best in 

 the market and the Best value at the price. A large order we can handle with the same ease 

 as a small one and all have the same attention. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch St. :: Philadelphia 



Open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. in. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



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structed to notify, all members in arrears 

 to the soeiety^^tliat, unless t\icy paid up 

 by the January meeting, they \Vould be 

 dropped from the rolls. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Eble's show window is at- 

 tractively decorated with choice plants 

 and cut flowers of the season, and many 

 red colored miniature incandescent 

 lights, placed in artificial poinsettias, 

 make a brilliant effect at night. 



Henry E. Rehfeld, a local florist, 

 joined the order of benedicts Novem- 

 ber 29, the bride being Miss M. E. }i. 

 Gensler, of this city. His marriage was 

 a great surprise to his many friends ;ind 

 the members of tlie socictj-. K. E. 



PHrLADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Maiket. 



The usual market rei)ort had failed 

 to arrive when press hour came to hand 

 for this week's Review. 



The New Dreer Place. 



• Great interest is felt among florists 

 generally about the new plant, now 

 nearly completed, that is being built by 

 Henry A. Dreer on the 123-acre farm 

 that was purchased last summer. This 

 farm is only a few minutes' drive from 

 Biverton. It is situated on the oppo- 

 site side of the Pennsylvania railroad 

 tracks, with a frontage of something 

 like 2,300 feet along the railroad. The 

 plant now under construction lies about 

 300 feet back from the tracks, giving 

 ample display room for summer plant- 

 ing. It covers a surface 203x483 feet, 

 exclusive of the boiler shed. This area 

 is divided into two ranges, each con- 

 sisting of ten houses 21x203, divided 

 by a service shed. The houses run 

 parallel to the service shed and are 

 divided in the middle by a corridor 

 house running at right angles from end 

 to end. This rough outline will gjve an 

 idea of the way the place is laid out. 

 The plan is to secure the best results 

 from labor, the chief item of running 

 expenses, as well as to secure the most 

 convenient arrangement of the houses. 

 The corridor house, dividing the en- 



JUST AFTER CHRISTMAS 

 FLOWERS ARE GOOD 



f^Generally plentiful and lower in price. Don't 

 miss an order because you think good stock 

 is scarce. Call on us for very fine 



Haryland, Richmond and White Killarney 



and EVERYTHING SEASONABLE for the HolidaYS 



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BERGER BROS. 



...Wholesale Florists... 

 1305 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



tire place in halves and centering in 

 the service house, where packing, pot- 

 ting, etc., will be done, is the chief 

 feature in this plan. Ten of the houses 

 are complete, piped, benched and ready 

 for the plants; these houses are sepa- 

 rated one from the other by side walls. 

 The remaining ten houses are nearly 

 ready; they are laid out in three sets 

 — four houses open between in the first 

 set, and three houses, each open into 

 the others, in the second and third 

 sets. The final glazing and painting, 

 the concrete walls and the pipe are be- 

 ing rapidly pushed in this range, where 

 beds will probably be used instead of 

 benches, as in the first range. 



The heating plant is located in a 

 magnificent fireproof building nearby. 

 This building contains five seventy-five 

 horse-power horizontal return tubular 

 boilers, harnessed together, with space 



alongside for an additional five when 

 needed. There are two centrifugal 

 pumps, each with a separate engine to 

 work it, so arranged that should either 

 break do.wn the other can immediately 

 replace it. These pumps are used for 

 the forced circulation of hot water; 

 they draw the water from the 2-inch 

 pipe back to the boilers with such 

 rapidity that the heat is but slightly 

 lower than when it left the boiler. 



A blower to give forced draft for 

 burning low grade coal has been in- 

 stalled. The smokestack is a work of 

 art; it is made of tiles of a patent used 

 in the Heine chimney, so arranged as 

 to give great strength. The chimney 

 is circular, seventy feet high and six 

 feet in diameter; it will readily fur- 

 nish draft for the additional five boil- 

 ers when required. Water to the 

 capacity of something like 100,000 gal- 



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